Can anyone direct me to a copy of Laurel Graham's paper presented at the Gregory Stone Symposium, Jan.90, St.Peterburg Beach, FLA, "A Year in the Life of Dr. Lillian Moller Gilbreth: Four Representations of the Struggle of a Woman Scientist". Thanks very much Yolanda Coppolino; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Dec 10 14:21:27 1995 id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 10:22:06 +1300 ; 11 Dec 95 10:19:51 +1300 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 10:18:55 +1300 From: "STEFANIE S. RIXECKER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Hypatia Call for Papers/fwd To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Lincoln University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- CALL FOR PAPERS HYPATIA: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY announces a call for papers for a special issue on THIRD WAVE FEMINISM, guest edited by Jacqueline Zita and Laura Sells. As some members of the first generation of contemporary feminist philosophers approach retirement, academic feminism is confronting a new opportunity and challenge. Some have characterized this as a generation gap between second and third wave feminists in the academy. Calling this a generation gap is itself fraught with tensions: The expression "third wave feminism" raises questions of appropriation, and "new generation feminism" misleadingly suggests the differences are age-related. But "generation gap" need not refer to age differences between younger and older feminists. Instead we are concerned with a cohort experience of new feminist philosophers , those educated by second wave feminist philosophers who are now "established" and who typically began their careers when women's studies and feminist philosophy were not yet legitimate, sanctioned, or tolerated fields. Feminist philosophy became a somewhat viable academic and scholarly endeavor in the 1970s, but not without great struggle for those creating the new paradigms and ideas. In the 1980s, these paradigms and ideas were refracted and refined by critical exchanges on race, class, sexuality, and other identity politics and practices that contested feminist philosophy on every level. Most recently, feminist philosophy has been challenged by the emergence of queer theory, critical race theory, and various critiques that travel under the name of postmodernism. It is time to look at the work of feminist scholars and philosophers speaking across and through the various currents that shape the future of academic feminist philosophy. This contemporary project faces two challenges. On the one hand, feminists face the canonization of earlier feminist scholarship, the problem of instutituionlizing feminist philosophy and theory in light of deisciplinary, political and economic relations, and a highly competitive and not necessarily feminist job market. On the other hand, the various "neos," "posts," and "anti's" of our time--neo-liberalism, communitarianism, postmodernism, poststructuralism, postfeminism, postcolonialism, post-identity politics, and anti-foundationalism--provoke a continujed questioning or crisis of basic feminist assumptions. In addition, the competing claims of the "real" world, every day politics, and high theory, and the institutional drive to create "new frontiers" and "new markets" in scholarship and research constitute the context in which feminists must rearticulate and renegotiate a commitment to feminist ideas. This special issue seeks to give voice and space to the work of third wave feminist philosophers and scholars, to honor the generation of feminist who fought for the very notion of feminist philosophy and women's studies, and to facilitate intergenerational dialogue and connection. General questions to be explored: 1) What characterizes "third wave" feminism? How should third wave feminist respond to the epistemological and political challenges that mark their entrance in the academy or profession? How and why do third wave feminists want to modify previous methodologies or adopt perhaps totally different methodologies? 2) What historical shifts, various waves or tendencies, new topologies or new paradigms, or novel genealogies help us grasp a feminist intellectual life in our time? How do these notions advance or impede feminist philosophical thinking? 3) what is the impact of various antifoundationalisms (the posts and neos) on the work of feminist scholars? How, for example, might queer theory influence lesbian feminist theory and philosophy in the 1990s? 4) What effect might the changing structure of the academyh, along with debates on issues such as multiculturalism, political correctness, interdisciplinary studies, right wing economic controls, and tenure chokeholds, ahve on the production of new feminist philosophy: 5) How have the concerns of antidisciplinary and interdisciplinary discourse, such as cultural studies, queer studies, critical race theory, and women's studies informed feminist philosophy? How successfuly has this feminist philosophy rearticulated these concerns? 6) Can the categories of race/class/gender be reconfigured to address problems of difference? How does feminism propose to deal with its own classism and racism (or with its predominantly white middle class background and expectations)? How does recent feminist theory define political activism? All papers should be submitted in quadruplicate and identified as submissions for the Third-Wave issue. Send them to Hypatia, Department of Women's Studies, HMS 413, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620. DEADLINE: April 15, 1996. Anticipated publication date: Spring 1997.
